How to make babun/cygwin home directory equal windows home directory?

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I just installed babun, a variant of Cygwin. I want the cygwin user home directory to equal my windows home directory. So, to be clear, I don't want to add the cygwin home to the C:\Users as a new user, I want it to be the same as my current windows home directory.

Now, according to this post, How can I change my Cygwin home folder after installation?, there is a neat way to make the cygwin home directory point to your windows home directory. You open the file /etc/nsswitch.conf and make sure is has a line db_home: windows. However, after restarting my pc, echo $HOME still says /home/chiel.tenbrinke, which is not what is should be. It should say something like /cygdrive/c/Users/Chiel.tenBrinke.

Why is this not working?

My cygwin version is CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW IM-Chiel-2015 1.7.35(0.287/5/3) 2015-03-04 12:07 i686 Cygwin.

3 Answers

in /etc/nsswitch.conf

db_home: /cygdrive/c/Users/%H

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